Following the shocking video of a passenger being dragged off a United Airlines flight surfacing on Sunday night, there were plenty of reactions that were sensitive, nuanced, and appropriately outraged. Bill O'Reilly's response on Monday night was not. Instead, O'Reilly laughed as he played the United Airlines video on Monday night's episode of The O'Reilly Factor.

However, just because there's a devastatingly low bar for conduct for a certain TV personality doesn't mean that it's any less terrible when he trips over it. Introducing the video, he said:

Personal story segment tonight. Another airline horror story. Sunday night, Chicago to Louisville overbooked. United Airlines offers money to folks to give up their seat. No takers. Then the cops come on board and remove a guy by force. [Laughs] Joining us — I shouldn't be laughing, but it's just so bizarre.

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What we're seeing with O'Reilly could either be (1) a major lack of foresight by refusing to acknowledge that a person being injured trying to do something as mundane as traveling for work is objectively terrible, or (2) a strategy to take a callous, contrarian stance and pander to viewers who generally want to disagree with the anti-violence stances of so-called "SJW Twitter."